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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Hymenoptera

Family: Apidae

Subfamily: Apinae

Tribe: Apini

Genus: Apis

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Natural Selection By: Darwin and others

The queen is chosen by group-selection and not natural selection because worker bee’s cannot reproduce and they typically end up dying from protecting the hive.

Eusociality, the highest level of organization of animal sociality, is defined by the following characteristics: cooperative brood care (including brood care of offspring from other individuals), overlapping generations within a colony of adults, and a division of labor into reproductive and non-reproductive groups.The division of labor creates specialized behavioral groups within an animal society which are sometimes called castes.

Kin Selection, the close kinship between the workers.
Maternal manipulation, is reducing the physical ability of some offspring by manipulating them through her pheromones (chemical secretions). By doing so she optimizes the sucess of a select few of her other offspring-the new fertile queens

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Over natural selection from mating with the Queen, only the drones with the largest wings can mate. Although the genes passed on are 70% queen because she is most dominant, and 30% drone. Progressively over time they will have same sized wings, versus the front wing larger and back win smaller,

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Biologists have still not solved the contradictions of colony evolution. But from what they have found, tasks are divided between workers to construct maintain, and protect the elaborate hive.

There are different types of bees that help the hive run fluently; the Queen(can live up to 5 years) [can lay up to 1,000 eggs in a day during the summer]- lays eggs in hive,

Drones-males that mate with the Queen, sip honey when they aren't busy with the Queen they can be found lounging and sipping on the harvested honey, in the fall if they have not died from mating they get ejected by the workers/neuters (eventually dying off from lack of food and bad weather.)

Workers/Neuters(live up to a month) the daughters of the Queen→ They go through the jobs as follows, a cleaner, babysitter, builder, guard scout, and harvester.

Forager's effectively work themselves to death. They help gather pollen(protein), nectar, and water for the hive, also converts glucose, fructose, and sucrose into honey.

The male and female honeybee's are easy to distinguish compared to other species of bee.

Communication around the hive is mostly by dances to indacate new forage source, tells them which direction to fly, how far to fly and what to expect when they get there.

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Through different parts of the world there are different types of Honeybees to coincide with the development of the flowers and plants located in that part’s of the world.

Dwarf Honeybee: Parts of Iran, China, and India, through southeast Asia into Indonesia and the Philippines.

Giant Honeybee: Similar range to the dwarf honeybee, from southern Afghanistan, India, and Sri Lanka to southern China Indonesia, and parts of the Philippines.

Oriental Honeybee(Eastern): Wide natural distribution across  most of Asia, from India through southern Russia to China, Japan, Korea, southeast Asia, the Malay Peninsula, the Philippines, and Indonesia.

Western Honeybee: Most geographically widespread bee on Earth. It has been domesticated, or at least exploited, by humans for so long that it origins are now unclear.

Carniolan Honeybee: Originally from Austria and the Balkan regions, now transported around the world and the second most popular race.

Italian Honeybee: Originally from Italy and Sicily, most widely distributed race in the world, particularly to the UK, USA, Australia and New Zealand.

African Honeybee: Native to southern and central Africa.

Dark European or Germ Black Honeybee: Adapted to cooler northern climate.

Cape Honeybee:Southern Africa

Egyptian Honeybee: Native to Nile Valley, introduced into California.

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Within my research I’ve found that it is not clear how bees evolved-the details seem to be lost in the shrouded mists of prehistory also due to the fact that insects are at the bottom of the food chain means that most of the insects end up being eaten by larger creatures and predators so their bodies are not available for the processes of fossilization. The one fossil evidence that was most recently recorded was a closely related brethren discovered in the year of 2006; the tiny, wasp-like Melittosphex Burmensis, cocooned in amber in a mine in northern Burma. From that the evidence they found that Honey bees derive from wasps by the given information from (The Beekeeper’s Bible); The fossil “wasp” features (the lack of any obvious pollen-carrying structure and narrow legs) and the feathery hairs that characterize bees today seem to support the generally held view that modern bees and wasps all evolved from more waspish ancestors during this period.
The change of wasps developing into feeding on pollen and nectar (and feeding it to their larvae) become a turning point coincided, with the availability of flowers.

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Dimensions of their body goes as follows: six legs, four wings, and two pointy antennae.

They c an't live in cold weather, their homes are made inside hollow trees or on tree branches, living togetherl in colonies.

Development of the honey bee goes as follows, Egg is laid, day 3 larvae, week 1 pupae, after 2 weeks adult.

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Honeybees can appear shiny and smooth in some lights, but close examination shows that they, too, have hairs in bands across the abdomen, and sticking out from the thorax.

Looking at the different types of bees, honeybees have already well evolved into a great specimen with their complex colony behaviors.

Bees are purely herbivorous, feeding only on pollen, nectar, sap, and other plant secretions; thus, their larvae are entirely vegetarian.

A honeybees size lies between the vast range. They are typically (12-18mm) long.

“The best way of identifying a honeybee is simply from its general appearance by becoming familiar with its image” Entomologists

General description and distinction of a honeybee vs. other bees and relatives:

Wings: Four: front wings large, back wings small, but held together by microscopic hooks to make a single aerofoil, usually held parallel along the back and overlapping when at rest.

Antennae: Obvious, stout and relatively long

Eyes: Oval or kidney-shaped; relatively small, except drone honeybees.

Color: Brown and black with orange bands on the abdomen

Body: Smooth, but with some hairs on the thorax and bands on the abdomen

Back legs: Outstanding combs of hairs forming a pollen basket, often concealed by the mass of harvested pollen(absent in drones)

Sting: Present in workers(not drones), and quick to use if hive is threatened

Behavior: Busy, focused, search madly for food, usually in large numbers at many different groups of relatively open flowers